Just wrapped up a few (3) new remixes of the latest Secret Mixter project which just took place over on ccmixter. I was only supposed to do one, but I ended up doing 2 more to make sure everyone that submitted something got something back.
The first (my original assignment) mix was for onlymeith, whose work I really enjoy. I decided to take 2 of his piano tracks and work them together, although they had a pretty big difference in bpm. I arranged it so that one piano track was the verse foundation (and repeated it) while the other acted as a bridge. I also had the beats drop out during the bridge section to de-emphasize the difference in bpm. then, to fill out the arrangement, I decided to create a “virtual conversation” between KCentric and Suzi Q. Smith, 2 powerful vocal contributors. The result is “Not Quite Only Meith”
For the second mix, I mashed up wellman, colab, spinning merkaba, and mana junkie in what I thought would be a big old remix covering the remaining folks that didn’t get a mix back. I used the great drums and percussion tracks from wellman (including timpani), colab’s piano, and placed spinning merkaba’s spoken word track around that. i used mana junkie’s track for the bridge. I also added some electric piano and string pads to the verse sections, and a number of synth tracks to the bridge. The result is “we are all one”
The final remix I just wrapped up was a last minute mashup I did to cover the last 2 artists I left off the last remix. I didbn’t leave them off intentionally, I just didn’t know they’d gotten stiffed too. “Getaway Deconstructed” is built around gmz’s instrumental track “getaway”. I augmented it with many of the samples from a nice sample pack from reusenoise, and threw an excellent vocal track by DJ Vadim and Katherine Debouer on top of that.